Sunnie Andress and Old Crow Farm now in Vancouver, Washington
Original Hooked Rugs and Santas, Witches and other characters by Sunnie
Hooray…I had time to finish “Oswaldo” and he looks pretty happy. Also, some background filling in and his leaf, etc. (I do love that background plaid…it shows off the motifs just fine and is a little dark…to make us think of nighttime.)
It was so hot today…I stay inside as much as possible with the air conditioning! It’s always nice working with wool if it is cool…summer or winter! 🙂
Here we go on Day 7…Happy Hooking! Sunnie 🙂
Well, yesterday and today I have been struggling with one of my motifs to stay where I wanted him to stay!!!!! But…this guy just keeps turning around so I am going to hook him turned around. He has won the day!!!! …lol…
As I’ve said, this rug has the borders and lights as an “entry” to where my characters are going. (the way you would see them when opening your door!) The candy corn lights (the janitor needs to see about those cobwebs!!!) and the “wrought iron and jewel” posts frame the entry. I wanted this pumpkin guy to just show his back to us, so his grin would be seen by the characters/motifs coming through the entry!
However, “Oswaldo” must have seen a spectacular pumpkin lady (with a snaggle-tooth grin, I suspect…!!!!) inside the______________! And he keeps turning around to look at her. I’ve finally given up and am hooking his silly grin, perhaps these characters coming through the entry now are among the last to enter…so it should be OK!!! 🙂
So here is Progress on Day 6…first a photo of part of a motif and second, Oswaldo being worked on!!!!!
Happy Hooking! Sunnie 🙂
I’m shedding a little “light” on the proceedings with the first of my “candy corn” outdoor lights that shine at the entrance to the…..! …lol… (I think I need to round off that white point just a bit.)
Working on finishing the left border and working on the second candy corn light as well as some motifs in the center now! Trying a colour combination that I think will work in the center…but have to add more to see if I can keep it as is or have to change it…!!
Decisions, decisions…Progress on Day 4…Happy Hooking! Sunnie 🙂
Well this one is coming right along! I always have such fun on these that it is hard to stop hooking and do other things…like shopping for food, etc.!!!!! …lol…
Sometimes people ask me where I start a rug…(center, one side, top or bottom, etc)…and I have to say that I start where I want to see what that area looks like first!!!! 🙂
On the “Trick or Treat-Halloween” rug just finished, I started my hooking at the bottom of the rug, went up the left side and into the center, worked on the right side border, hooked more in the center, did some on the top border (left), worked in the center, worked on the tree and the top and finished up on the right side border!!!
This time on “HHHD”…I am starting at the top left border and top border, going into the center top and working across the top border and center until I get to the right side border on the top of the rug. I started here because I wanted to see if my idea for the “gated entrance” of this design worked with the design for the “outside lights motif” I wanted to use! …lol…
So the answer is that I start hooking anywhere I like! However, when I first started hooking (I was doing more primitive designs with a #8 cut), people told me (teachers too) to start in the middle with my motifs, outline my motifs with my background wool to see if it worked well and then fill in background and do the border(s) last.
The above suggestion does not work well for me at this stage of my life!!!! 🙂
I do not like “filling in backgrounds” and “rug hooking hell” for me would be spending weeks and weeks just filling in a solid beige background on a large rug!!!! So I design rugs with a lot of designs and less background so I can do motifs and backgrounds as I go along. Sometimes, if I am tired, I will do the border on the finished side of a rug if it is a plain border with one or two colours and I can just hook along in a straight line without having to think! I also use plaids in my backgrounds…I find plaids more interesting to hook.
I am working each day on the pattern packets too, getting the photos and the full-size enlargements, etc. Since I’m just learning all this Pattern-stuff and how to get pattern packets printed and ready, I should be better organized and more efficient when all the first try things are done!!!! Would you believe that just folding the patterns to fit into the clear pattern bags and mailing envelopes is quite a job in itself!!! …lol…
So here is Progress on HHHD-Day 2…Happy Hooking! Sunnie 🙂
Sunnie Andress and Old Crow Farm now in Vancouver, Washington 